Went out to the range to shoot the National Match M-1 this weekend at the range, and lack of practice reared it’s ugly head yet again… I didn’t shoot worth a dang only 1 x and only 2 10 rings. Sigh… And the @#&* extractor decided to start acting up, so after 10 rounds I gave up on the day and wandered over to the pistol range. Low and behold, there was a bowling pin shoot in progress.

Well, stupid me, they said I could jump in, so I paid my money and got on the line…

Yep, didn’t do worth a dang there either… I could NOT break 12 seconds any one of the three rounds. I could get 4 of the 5, but that fifth one just ate me up. Now granted I was shooting my carry pistol, but still, that was embarrassing; especially when some of the folks were down in the 6 second range (granted they were shooting race guns, but still…). In the ‘production’ group, a lady from one of the local gun clubs won with a time of 8 seconds and change! She said she shoots EVERY weekend, and dry fires at least 50 times a night. OBTW, she beat her hubby by almost a full second 🙂

Needless to say, HE was not happy, but everybody else got a laugh out of it…

So, after two embarrassments in a row, I tucked my tail and went to yet another range, and practiced for an hour, at least I ‘finally’ got more or less back on target.

Bottom line, a month off from shooting DEFINITELY impacted my ability, and I sure as hell was NOT smooth in anything I was doing.